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Last week Batista took another crack at the dictator across the water. He ordered his Minister of the Interior, Antonio Bravo Costa, to legalize the belligerently Loyalist Spanish Republican Circle, outlawed since 1936 street riots with Franco Falangistas. He made no move to release the many Falangistas now jailed as fifth columnists...
...extra dollar he could scrounge he put into more pamphlets. He warned newspapermen, police and the Canadian Legion of the Bundists in their midst, and of Hitler's plans for conquest. They paid even less attention to him after he came back from fighting as a volunteer for Loyalist Spain; he was called a Red and a troublemaker. Most of his family turned against him. Embittered and socially ostracized they asked: Why did he not mind his own business when he came to Canada? Others got along with the Bund and prospered. Why did he love democracy so much...
...Personal Ambition." Admiral Darlan said that he was lightening Vichy restrictions on Jews in French Africa and freeing men imprisoned "because of sympathy to the Allies" (a phrase which did not necessarily cover the thousands who were imprisoned in North Africa because they fought for Loyalist Spain). But the statement that most interested the world concerned Admiral Darlan himself. Said...
...miles from Bombay. Here the Duke of Wellington once lunched on a grassy bank outside the fort's huge stone walls. Here the British once kept prisoners of the Boer war. Here, more recently, they have interned Italians captured in North Africa. Here Nehru, who worked for Loyalist Spain, who cried out against Munich, who was shocked by Hitler's Brown Shirts and twice snubbed invitations for an interview with Mussolini, could look out bitterly on monsoon skies. Nehru alone knew what thoughts were in his mind. But once before in prison he remembered T. S. Eliot...
...other United Nations-at war with the Axis. Recent were the sinkings but hoary, as modern politics go, was the steady flame of anti-Fascist fervor behind that decision. Since Dictator Benito Mussolini's conquest of Ethiopia, which she never recognized, on through comradeship with Spanish Loyalist resistance to Generalissimo Francisco Franco, Mexico had consistently raised her voice against the Fascist-Nazi powers...